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The Resource Law, history and colonialism : the reach of Empire, edited by Diane Kirkby and Catharine Coleborne, (electronic resource)

Law, history and colonialism : the reach of Empire, edited by Diane Kirkby and Catharine Coleborne, (electronic resource)

Label
Law, history and colonialism : the reach of Empire
Title
Law, history and colonialism
Title remainder
the reach of Empire
Statement of responsibility
edited by Diane Kirkby and Catharine Coleborne
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Language
  • eng
  • eng
Index
index present
Language note
In English
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Kirkby, Diane
  • Coleborne, Catharine
Series statement
MUP - Manchester Studies in Imperialism
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Colonies
  • Colonies
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Indigenous peoples
Label
Law, history and colonialism : the reach of Empire, edited by Diane Kirkby and Catharine Coleborne, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526119704
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
Includes index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Contributors -- Introduction -- Part One: Colonialism's legality -- 1. Terminal legality: Imperialism and the (de) composition of law - Peter Fitzpatrick -- 2. Colonization and the legal cartography of authority: English intrusions on the American mainland in the seventeenth century - Christopher Tomlins -- 3. Reflections on the rule of law: the Georgian colonies of New south Wales and Upper Canada 1788-1837 - John McLaren -- Part ToI: Imperialism and citizenship -- 4. Race definition run amuck: 'Slaying the dragon of Eskimo status' before the supreme court of Canada, 1939 - Constance Backhouse -- The paradox of 'Ultra Democratic' governments: Indigenous peoples' civil rights in nineteenth-century New Zealand, Canada and Australia - Patricia Grimshaw, Robert Reynolds and Shurlee Swain -- 6. 'When There's No Safety in Numbers': Fear and the franchise in the Union of South Africa, the case of Natal - Julie Evans and David Philips -- Making 'Mad' populations in settler colonies: the work of law and medicine in the creation of the colonial asylum - Catharine Coleborne -- Part Three: Justice, custom and the common law -- 8. Towards a "taxonomy" for the common law: Legal history and the recognition of Aboriginal customary law - Mark Walters -- 9. The problem of Aboriginal evidence in early colonial NSW - Nancy Wright -- 10. Assuming judicial control: George Brown's narrative defence of the 'New Britain Raid' - Helen Gardner -- Part Four: Land, sovereignty and imperial frontiers -- 11. The early fate of Maori land rights in Aotearoa/New Zealand - Ann Parsonson -- 'Because it does not make any sense': Sovereignty's power in the case of Delgamuukw v. The Queen, 1997 -- 13. Land, conveyancing reform and the problem of the married woman in colonial Australia - Hilary Golder & Diane Kirkby -- 14. The construction of property rights on imperial frontiers: The case of the New Zealand 'Native Land Purchase Ordinance' of 1846 - John Weaver -- Part Five: Colonialism's legacy----15. International law - Recolonising the Third World?: Law and conflicts over water in the Krishna Basin - Radha D'Souza -- 16. Historians and native title: The question of evidence - Christine Choo -- 17. Race, gender, and history in three societies: Canada, New Zealand and Australia - Constance Backhouse, Ann Curthoys, and Ann Parsonson -- Index
Control code
992975973116801631
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
MSI edition.
Extent
1 online resource (320 pages)
Form of item
electronic
Isbn
9781526119704
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
Label
Law, history and colonialism : the reach of Empire, edited by Diane Kirkby and Catharine Coleborne, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526119704
Publication
Copyright
Note
Includes index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Contributors -- Introduction -- Part One: Colonialism's legality -- 1. Terminal legality: Imperialism and the (de) composition of law - Peter Fitzpatrick -- 2. Colonization and the legal cartography of authority: English intrusions on the American mainland in the seventeenth century - Christopher Tomlins -- 3. Reflections on the rule of law: the Georgian colonies of New south Wales and Upper Canada 1788-1837 - John McLaren -- Part ToI: Imperialism and citizenship -- 4. Race definition run amuck: 'Slaying the dragon of Eskimo status' before the supreme court of Canada, 1939 - Constance Backhouse -- The paradox of 'Ultra Democratic' governments: Indigenous peoples' civil rights in nineteenth-century New Zealand, Canada and Australia - Patricia Grimshaw, Robert Reynolds and Shurlee Swain -- 6. 'When There's No Safety in Numbers': Fear and the franchise in the Union of South Africa, the case of Natal - Julie Evans and David Philips -- Making 'Mad' populations in settler colonies: the work of law and medicine in the creation of the colonial asylum - Catharine Coleborne -- Part Three: Justice, custom and the common law -- 8. Towards a "taxonomy" for the common law: Legal history and the recognition of Aboriginal customary law - Mark Walters -- 9. The problem of Aboriginal evidence in early colonial NSW - Nancy Wright -- 10. Assuming judicial control: George Brown's narrative defence of the 'New Britain Raid' - Helen Gardner -- Part Four: Land, sovereignty and imperial frontiers -- 11. The early fate of Maori land rights in Aotearoa/New Zealand - Ann Parsonson -- 'Because it does not make any sense': Sovereignty's power in the case of Delgamuukw v. The Queen, 1997 -- 13. Land, conveyancing reform and the problem of the married woman in colonial Australia - Hilary Golder & Diane Kirkby -- 14. The construction of property rights on imperial frontiers: The case of the New Zealand 'Native Land Purchase Ordinance' of 1846 - John Weaver -- Part Five: Colonialism's legacy----15. International law - Recolonising the Third World?: Law and conflicts over water in the Krishna Basin - Radha D'Souza -- 16. Historians and native title: The question of evidence - Christine Choo -- 17. Race, gender, and history in three societies: Canada, New Zealand and Australia - Constance Backhouse, Ann Curthoys, and Ann Parsonson -- Index
Control code
992975973116801631
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
MSI edition.
Extent
1 online resource (320 pages)
Form of item
electronic
Isbn
9781526119704
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote

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